The federal and provincial governments and the company that owns the paper mill in The Pas say a lawsuit filed last year by a First Nation over a 2019 toxic fluid spill should be thrown out of court. Opaskwayak Cree Nation filed a claim against Canadian Kraft Paper and the governments in the Court of King’s Bench last September, arguing it wasn’t warned about the hazardous spill until the company had pleaded guilty in provincial court to a charge under the federal Fisheries Act and was ordered to pay a million-dollar fine in December 2023. …The federal government said it fulfilled its duties by sending Environment and Climate Change Canada investigators to look into the spill before prosecuting the paper company in court….The paper company denies causing any harm to the environment or that its actions or inaction have resulted in any adverse effects to people’s health.